James Wan Quotes

'Saw' really came from that want, the aspiration to make a feature film on our own.

James Wan

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• Life is a school of probability.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Life
  • School
  • Life Is A

• Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Up
  • Win
  • Vote

• Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Up
  • Good
  • Cool

• Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • People
  • Peace
  • Positive

• We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Like
  • Europe
  • Preserve

• Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Law
  • Opinion
  • Living

• There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Career
  • Changed

• We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Weird
  • Very
  • Bunch

• Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Women
  • Stand
  • Lib

• The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Mind
  • Language
  • Same

• I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

  

  Gay Talese
  • People
  • Writing
  • Character

• We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Why

• Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • World
  • Friends
  • Me

• My parents were born in Korea. They spent a good part of their life in Korea.

  

  Randall Park
  • Life
  • Good
  • Parents

• Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Lies
  • Public
  • Spoken

• If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

  

  George Ripley
  • Men
  • Literature

• Audiences seem to have a limitless appetite for vampires and for fantasy in general. Unlike many other British actors, I haven't been building up my pension appearing in films like 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'Harry Potter,' but fantasy has now got a grip on me. I am also appearing in 'Game of Thrones' as the head of the House of Lannister.

  

  Charles Dance
  • Up
  • Game
  • House

• Listening is active. It's like vision. It's like the idea of the eye projecting light, which I've heard is what children and infants say when they're asked to explain vision - that the eye projects light, rather than just receives it.

  

  Eyvind Kang
  • Children
  • Light
  • Listening

• Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Reality
  • Promise
  • Commitment

• Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn't want anybody's name on my backside. I personally don't like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone's likeness all over it.

  

  Matthew McConaughey

• 'Saw' really came from that want, the aspiration to make a feature film on our own.

  

  James Wan